Git pull from specific branch

Question

I want to pull changes from specified branch to my local repository, but I don't wont it to merge with master branch. What is the right way to do that? Do I have to make my own branch and than pull?

Solution

git pull is the same as git fetch followed by git merge.

To create a local branch tracking a branch on a remote, first fetch from the remote and then run git checkout with the name of a branch that matches that on the remote:

git fetch <remote>
git checkout <branch>

• <remote> is the name of the remote, for instance origin.
• <branch> is the name of a branch on that remote. If git branch -r shows a branch name origin/foo, Git should set this up correctly if you do git checkout foo.

Comments

[user229044]

This is what git fetch is for.

[IMSoP]

I think you may be muddling terminology: "pull" in git means "fetch + merge". Where do you want the changes to show up? In your working copy so you can view them? In a graph view?

[user3568043]

@IMSoP In my working copy